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The standing principle is noninterference. I dont care that you dont care. If I care thats my problem not yours. The right is perfectly capable of rejecting the worst excrsses by its own terms: the expulsion of the wrongthinkers is proof of the right not being held hostage to every crazy statement within its base. That Myron Gaines or Fuentes or other random fuckwits claim to the banner of the right and have admiring listeners is immaterial, they are not thought leaders within the right wing intellectual ecoststem.
The left on the other hand does NOT abandon a single one of the maximalist positions advanced by their problematics is precisely the problem they have. Trump can happily go "I love gays" and prance with a rainbow flag and no one grouses much. The left CANNOT abandon a single position at all without being outflanked by a screeching progressive.
Maybe the issue is that the right protects its people, while the left protects "its"ideas. Kiss the ring and JD Vance gets to be Trumps jester. Question trans maximalism and the DSA smells blood in the water.
On a personal level maybe. Well you wouldn't expend many thought cycles on me, but I would farm downvotes here on the Motte if I earnestly expressed such a view, and that is itself at least a tiny form of caring. But on a meta-level I'd say The Motte does care. That's why they keep coming back to whatever crazy thing the left did today, and their refusal to take responsibility for it.
The extreme of the extreme, maybe. Though I will note Trump himself has met with Fuentes, claimed to not know who he was, and then dodged condemning him. If Trump prances with a rainbow flag, I do think that on that subject they would be very unhappy, though they might console themselves that they are happy with him on other issues.
The left mostly just ignores its crazies. Within the DNC, AOC seems to be mostly the crazy uncle that rants while everyone eats their Thanksgiving dinner and then they never talk to otherwise. For all the talk on Palestine, Biden himself didn't actually do anything college kids wanted, which may have contributed to Trump's win.
And yes, to be fair, arguably the notable exception is trans. On this issue the moderate Dems mostly seem to be along the lines of "Well the doctors say this is the right approach."
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